According to media reports, the child welfare division of the Tokyo police force has been questioning editorial staff with Kodansha in relation to possible child pornography or child abuse offences connected to their recent withdrawal of a highly controversial photograph.

The photo, which supposedly depicts a “foreign child” covering Kasai’s breasts with his hands, was withdrawn along with the rest of the magazine before it reached distributors, but this did not stop it being leaked and used to fuel a series of accusations of child pornography against the parties involved.

Police are said to be investigating whether this non-publication of the offending image warrants charges of distributing child pornography, an unsurprisingly serious if at times narrowly defined offence under Japanese law (and an interesting one considering the photograph was subsequently widely reproduced online and in newspapers without censure).

Child pornography charges would rest upon courts finding the images “incite lust,” and would attract a maximum sentence of 5 years, as would charges of child prostitution, another possible offence.

Police say the fact that the boy pictured appears to be white is the driving force behind the investigation: “we have taken into account that a boy of European descent was used, as punishments for child pornography offences there are more severe than in Japan and it may become an international issue” – apparently indicating it would have been acceptable to use a mere Asian child.

When the photo first surfaced, many were quick to point out that if the genders were reversed and Kasai were a man having a little girl touch her, she would likely face rapid arrest and public ruin – although others have pointed out that images of women breast-feeding young boys (such as Time’s famous cover, or even a scene in top US fantasy drama Game of Thrones) enjoy sacrosanct status even in the US.

Still others doubt the image is anything more than a crude Photoshop in any case – although whether any of this will help Kodansha and AKB48 is another matter.

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The comment about race just confirms what people outside of Japan already suspect…that Japan does not really care about child sex abuse, but instead onlyt responds to it so as to not look bad to other contries that find it socially unnectpible (cimpletely discusting is more like it). I don’t know who they think they are fooling, because anyone with half a brain can tell when someone is geniune abotu an issue or when someone obviously doesn’t care & just puts on a show for you. They aren;t so darn clever that nobody knows what’s up. But hey, there is big business in exploitation going on in Japan.

This is what happens when you allow people who aren’t even FROM your country start dictating what can, and cannot be done. Asian countries need to grow some balls and stop getting pushed around by the west…Middle East doesn’t give a shit what the west thinks of their laws(they don’t and will not suddenly ‘change their way of life’ because of QQ tears from whitey). Stop worshiping whitey Asians. I know South Korea has a bad habit of thinking any ol lame ass American or European is a god or goddess even when the average joe is unattractive shit with big horse face and large nose. Asians better be more accepting and concerned with their own people rather than copying white boy.

To me this kid is not white or Caucasian. Just look at his eyes. He is clearly Asian with some dyed blonde hair. Another trait worshiped by Asians. The Blonde hair and blue eyes fiasco started by Caesar and followed up on by Hitler.

The TIME Magazine it was still considered “shocking” but also viewed as parental as between a mother giving milk/caring for her child or a dependency. Ontop of TIME being a well-known news outlet with millions of dollars to back themselves up on. Had that same picture been posted on a ‘lesser known’ magazine it probably would have received more controversy.

The AKB48 is viewed as “perverted” because he is standing behind the woman and covering her nipples with an almost leering expression on the face. Also because the stereotype in West (also thanks to western media) that the Asians, particularly Japanese, are nothing more than child-exploiting/molesting scum-bags. They see your anime, they see the youthful-looking attractive Asian female dancing upon stage. The west is a jealous whore and only wishes their females weren’t so ugly most of the time. Which is why as soon as they hit 35 years old they are using syringes to ‘regain youth’ that they lost due to wrinkles and old hag bags.

To me though this outcry is stupid. BOTH are touching the breast. The AKB has a boy touching the breast with his HANDS as were the American one has a boy touching breast with his MOUTH.

You would think the mouth would be considered the more ‘offensive’ version.

The west itself is not innocent. There has been more exposure of either violent or sexual content in children’s shows or television and or celebrities towards young audiences than anything else. It is just not as ‘open’ because the west is one gigantic puritan religious prude. You cannot turn on tv without some white female (the ones who are doing this majority of the time and duplicated by others) exposing her breast on national television. The ‘boob’ window is always there. The only difference is that there has been little to no contact with the boob window.

You can try to blend in with whitey, you can try to get accepted by whitey all Asians want. But whitey will STILL look down upon Asians, as whitey has done with others minorities.

Infact, the white-guy and female laugh and mock the Asians all the time (small penis, nothing but perverts, small-scanty eyed dodo). The one thing which Asians have done which is smart is to have their own developed countries…so they will not be in bondage to the white man.

When these japanese women come over to North-America the white guys they date treat them like crap. I have seen it many times. A japanese woman struggle with grocery cart with her hands full of kids and the white guy she’s married to keeps walking and leaves her behind.

The japanese woman better wake up and realize that dating a white doesn’t automatically mean you will have a big house or a ‘caring’ husband either.

Breastfeeding is not the same as holding breasts. Still I say If the boy was paid to do this and was not harassed or forced to do it than there is no problem here. And yes if the gendetrs were reversed it would be the greatest outrage.

More than likely the parents received pay for this shot. Obliviously they the studio had to get the boy from somewhere.

It was not like he was abducted or ‘forced’ into taking the shot. Some parents out there gave this studio permission to have their child take photographs with this AKB model. If the parents deemed the picture inappropriate or unsuitable, they would have spoken up about it.

Unless of course they were either not in the room when the pictures were taken(and why the hell not) OR they did not check with the photographer on the pictures.

Now if they did receive money for it as the ‘parent’ and cash-in that would suck. Clearly the boy is the one who did the pictures not them and the money should go to him. HOWEVER, the issue at hand is whether the magazine or not is a exploitation of said boy due to his hands upon the breast(if it falls afoul of being ‘porn’ or not). The monetary part could be viewed as him being exploited and then receiving pay for it as prostitution.

I feel this issue is a “issue” at all do to some QQ response from the West.

However taking a closer look at the west, they also released a magazine of a boy having mouth-to-mouth contact with a woman on TIME magazine.

So the two factors are this:

Common:

Both females in the magazine covers are adults

Both males in the magazine covers are minors

The American TIME magazine has boy starring at camera with his mouth smooshed upon breast from the side. This is contact.

The AKB Magazine has boy holding the breast and standing behind the female. This is contact.

BOTH have it where the female nipple-part is covered. The American TIME magazine has the boy covering the nipple with his own mouth, while the AKB Magazine has the boy covering the nipple with his hands.

The simple part of it however is that the boy’s hands are resting upon the breast. The second issue is to look at the nature of the magazine itself.

Exactly what is this AKB magazine known for. For I have heared the AKB itself is a singing group consisting of young teenagers. However, THIS AKB model is older (18) and is the model which they are focusing upon?

People keep using genderswap comparisons, which isn’t proper. For one thing, the boy isn’t touching genitalia. If he had, THEN you can say it’s the same as a little girl touching a man. Secondly, given the history of sexual abuse (and statistics), a man is more likely to be in a position to take advantage of the situation than woman would be. In this case, the woman in the photograph was doing it because of obligations of her employment. The whole if-it-was-a-guy-he’d-be-jailed-so-jail-her-too is form a lazy formulaic thinking that completely ignores the context of the situation.

Exactly. No genitalia is touched. The only thing touch which is breast which is a NATURAL thing of nature and is not pornographic on it’s own as it has many purposes.

In the western mind-set people have been trained to think breast automatically mean sex. Which is why the west had problems with Facebook and or/other magazines in where woman breast-feeding were considered “obscene” or “pornographic” simply for breast-feeding.

The west has come so use to the term of bottles just for feeding and breast as a sex-object rather than the natural beauty of the female, that any contact with them is automatically considered pornographic.

If a grown man were to touch the breast, he would be looked down upon as a sexiest pig by liberal feminist circle and sympathizers. But it wouldn’t be considered “porn” but a possible parody of sorts or in ‘distaste’. Ironically though they will have shows like Sex-In-The-City and nothing will be said.

Since the boy here is younger and touch breast, it is viewed as porn rather than naturalist of breast-feeding or association of the female body as something natural and not shameful. ALSO another factor, taking the origin of the magazine itself, what’s inside of it, and what audience it has is another factor.

If it has her posing about nude with much suggestiveness or porn (vibrators in female, ect) inside then that is a factor. But since only the magazine cover has been judged and not that actual content inside of the material it is harder to tell other than guessing. I can only guess that the content inside is of course, the female model (since Japan has since legally banned the other thing in 1987 and recently banned graphic(as in sex) loli manga since 2009-2010.

In the source article:
「児童ポルノへの罰則が日本より厳しい欧州系の少年がモデルに使われているため、国際的に問題視される可能性も考慮している」

My “rough” translation:
As the model used seems to be from north-american origin, which has even stricter law concerning child pornography, we can consider that it could cause international problems.

My two cent opinion :
Well, if the picture was taken under japan soil, it is obviously rules ONLY by japanese law. So it is kind of bullshit. Still, the argument that they made a fuss “because the kid is white” is biased (as usual for SC).

I think we have missed the point here.
It can’t be CP because the kid is not naked, he was not forced to undress by anyone and he was probably not raped either, that is the true problem of CP, that kids are fucked up in the process.
Otherwise the picture is just a picture, however indecent some people might find it should be irrelevant and if it is actually a fucking photoshop then this whole media problem is even more ridiculous.
I can photoshop some pictures of kids over naked ladies, I am producing CP now? Is that the same as getting a bunch of kids, telling them to undress and mastrubate while I tape them? Because that is how real CP works, the creepy dad or uncle or whatever forces the kids to do sexual shit while he tapes it.

I wonder how much money the parents were willing to accept to get this photo done. I bet the parents are both total japanese with black hair.

They are not telling everything. Where is the contract of “parental consent” for the picture? Since the picture was taken in Japan and not Europe or North America why is it a problem?

It goes by Japanese Laws, NOT by European/American laws. The origin of this picture is in Japan and therefore falls underneath japanese laws.

Also, the magazine was obviously trying to promote some sort of controversy for people to pick up the magazine and read it. How they never thought how this could possibly backfire is in their error of not having an attorney first before attempting to try such a thing.

Actually the picture in it’s entirety is hilarious. This is not “Porn” also noting that no genital detailed parts were exposed.

Also noting, he is simply holding the chest. What is porn is how the perverted western mind thinks everything is pornography.

Also noting there is no explicit of a strong sexual nature in said photo. It is suggestive to the audience(perhaps can be interpreted as ‘you wish you were me or in my place!’, but there is nothing which is ‘pornographic’

Everything nudity related as of late 90s has become exaggeratedly stupid!!
They should truly stop making too big a deal about it, making everything sound or seem perverted, regardless of how innocent it may be.
In fact, so many negative scandals regarding nudity and indicency and a whole lot other things just make them more desirable.
What’s more, many guys probably thought at first she looks good. lucky kid. and maybe even joke about it: kid move your hands! And as Normal people would, go on to reading the rest of the mag.
The kid only touched breasts. The kid if a boy was happy about it, may fap to it a couple of times and move on with his life. If a girl, may have thought about her breast size when she grows older, or puddin…
Of course, assuming kids still think like back in the day… In today’s society he/she is probably now considered a pervert, sex beast and sadly ends up alienated, enraged and becomes a hermit or in vengeance a sex criminal.

In part, when the media has nothing good to report, or politics try to divert attention, insignificant stuff like this mag cover gets battled like crazy making it look worse than it really is.

If someone does go to jail I it wont be Tomomi herself. Somehow she’ll escape being the innocent bystander because shes an attractive female at worst have a fine to pay. There is no way in hell shes going to do ANY jail time I promise you that.

Hard to argue because of the whole gender reverse thing and what would happen she probably should do at least a year in jail. I think the picture is fine except for the kid is so damn ugly. But if women want gender equality then all the feminazis should be protesting tomomi be put in jail. If not then what you wear is ‘asking for it’ and women should stay in the kitchen where they belong.

Highly doubtful. In japanese society she is viewed as an idol and icon, and due to her female status of having a vagina they will probably be more ‘relaxed’ on her (Our precious Tomomi!). If anything she may pay a small fine, but it’s the guy and producers who took the pictures and authorized them that’ll be in more “hot water” than she.

Such in Japanese society, as stupidly as the west thinks woman have no ‘rights’ or ‘weight’ because they dress cutesy and look cutesy are in for a rude awakening when they move here. Ask any foreign guy that lived in Japan that the females clearly have the advantage.

What the west thinks of ‘slavery’ or ‘abuse’ of woman is nothing more than japanese females charming the shit out of males (and if they can snatch a white person that’s a bonus). The men are expected to pay for everything if he marries or dates her. And when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING.

No, you misunderstand. We in the west know your Japanese women are money grubbing whores who take advantage of men and being female in every way possible. It is even a frequent news topic here on sankaku.

and by slavery or abuse I mean all the short skirts and panty shots. These gals wear these willingly, and they do it because they like to. Not what some haggard old white european or american thinks of it.

The more cute she is, the more things she will get. Yes there are fans which are highly dumb but there are also fans highly dumb when it comes to their favorite sports teams in NA/EU or Twilight books.

Like someone may have already said, I hope the kid remembers becausae with all the brainwashing and gang stalking again, that may be that kids last physical contact with the other sex for the rest of his life. Soft soft so soft breasts..

so a great crime has been committed.
who is the victim?
Is it the girl getting molested or the under age boy that is squeezing her tits?
What terrible thing happened to this victim? Will they ever recover?

I’m white, but that kid is NOT white. His eyes are distinctly of Asiatic appearance, along with eyebrow ridge and the top of the jaw line. He looks like bleached-haired child from Asia, made to look European. Weird in any country….

To anon 06:43. Many women want large breasts, or like that they have it because they think it is sexy, more womanly, and it will make them more feminin. So yeah. Women look at it as sexual objects too. Just like the mans penis.

Lack of prosecutable offenses does not equate lack of reasons or means to harass someone. Some people are just looking for an excuse to have a witch hunt. It makes one wonder if they even care for their cause or if they just get a hard-on for destroying lives.

@Riku:
In Japan, where simply entering the field of vision of a woman, JK or JS is enough to get a man questioned by police and possibly arrested if he isn’t handsome or wealthy enough to make that woman moist?

If their genders were reversed — if a man was having his modesty preserved by the hands of a grade-school girl — everybody even tangentially involved would have been arrested by now, including the clerk that sold the camera to the photographer and the guy at the factory who put the QA approval mark on the camera.

“Police say the fact that the boy pictured appears to be white is the driving force behind the investigation: “we have taken into account that a boy of European descent was used, as punishments for child pornography offences there are more severe than in Japan and it may become an international issue” – apparently indicating it would have been acceptable to use a mere Asian child.”

How is that quote indicating that? The quote clearly says that the issue may be more serious IF european laws are involved, because their punishments for this kind of thing are harsher. Keyword harsher. As in, it would be worse than it already is. That does not indicate that if it wasn’t worse than it already is, it would be fine.

That’s correct. Even if legal in Japan, children of foreign residents still enjoy the benefit of child protection laws of their parent’s country of origin. It would be prudent to investigate, if only to avoid any diplomatic tensions later on.

Still sounds like an excuse to justify suddenly springing into action through. It’s a typical response to avoid unwanted media criticism. *sigh*

In any case, nowhere in Europe would prosecute such a case. A boy with his hands on breasts, so what? How is it child porn when you only see the child’s head and hands, and he isn’t doing anything sexual?

Sure, there are some people here that would sue a cheese producer for advertising a breast-shaped cheese with a breast ad… on the other hand, they lost their case in court, so I wouldn’t be so sure about this photo being seen as “sexual” in a court of law either.

While I do agree with you a woman’s boobs are still a sexual area that’s where the controversy comes in.
I’m not a girl so I cant confirm but I think a girl can get “sexual aroused” from having her breast touched.
Hopefully someone might be able to confirm this.

The police aren’t investigating because the kid was white and therefore some “dirty foreigner”, it’s because of legal issues concerning Europeans thus they’re obliged to look into it to see if anything is amiss by European child porn standards (which are much more conservative).

In my experience, Japanese in general view themselves as a supreme race. Asians living in non asian countries tend to be this way also. But anyway this kids life has been ruined by a porn star. Wouldn’t it be tough to get a regular ‘respectable’ Japanese job now for him in this background check world? If he is foreign did they choose a foreigner intentionally so they would not sacrifice the future of one of their own precious Japanese?

“boy of European descent was used, as punishments for child pornography offences there are more severe than in Japan and it may become an international issue”

>harsher anti-child porn laws outside of japan
>more lenient anti-child porn laws in Japan
>if the kid’s european, european laws will be used against all people involved
Therefore it’s more acceptable to use asian kid than an european one.

Further, the quote cited didn’t even talk about how acceptable anything was. It simply said that if international laws got involved, it would be worse. Which is plainly true, for the reason given in the quote itself. The article is clearly trying to make it sound silly (which is a staple of Sankaku articles, and I say this with affection) by creating a false implication.

They’re looking into things like this involving race as well. That picture looks nothing like “lust”. Fucking stupid. They can’t even stop a guy throwing powdered letters out and getting whatever he wants to not come out.

So… wait… the U-15 gravure type videos, being sold commercially, some of which have bits peaking out from under the adult sized swimsuits, cameltoes, and genital focusing camera pans, aren’t child porn… but THIS is?

This just looks like a sad attempt at an artistic display/play on an idols “innocence” to me…

That’s cause western nations know that Japan is lacking when it comes to child porn laws. So in order to save face on the international stage, and come off as more appealing to western nations, they’ll go with this.

damn kids got chinky eyes. fuck off nips with your disgusting false allegations of western reverse paedophiles ! It’s only fucking asian kids that have the depravity enough to molest and innocent woman like that !